The Home Depot is looking to drive business profitability, increased efficiencies, and improved customer experience by leveraging data science initiatives and building an advanced analytics infrastructure.
Requirements
- Demonstrated expertise in predictive modeling, data mining and data analysis
- Demonstrated expertise utilizing statistical techniques to identify key insights that help solve business problems
- Expertise in a modern scripting language (preferably Python)
- Expertise running queries against data (preferably with Google BigQuery or SQL)
- Expertise with data visualization software (preferably Tableau)
- Expertise in Prescriptive Modeling like optimization, computer vision, recommendation, search or NLP
Responsibilities
- Utilize expertise when designing and developing algorithms and models to use against large datasets to create business insights
- Make appropriate selection, utilization and interpretation of advanced analytics methodologies
- Lead and manage large and complex projects and teams
- Serve as a technical subject matter expert (SME) for one or more data science methods, both predictive and prescriptive
- Partner with IT to understand potential for new tools and ways to maintain technical agility for data science
- Develop mastery in one or more prescriptive modeling techniques, like optimization, computer vision, recommendation, search or NLP
- Develop replicable solutions (for example, codified data products, project documentation, process flowcharts) to ensure solutions are leveraged for future projects
Other
- Must be eighteen years of age or older.
- Must be legally permitted to work in the United States.
- Typically requires overnight travel less than 10% of the time.
- The knowledge, skills and abilities typically acquired through the completion of a bachelor's degree program or equivalent degree in a field of study related to the job.
- PhD in a quantitative field (Computer Science, Math, Statistics, etc.) or equivalent work experience
